Using VirtualEnv with multiple Python versions on windows

Question

I have python 2.7.6 and 3.4.0 on my machine. The 2.7 version is on my path. I would like to set up a virtualenv using 3.4. There are many postings on SO and elsewhere that s

Answer 1

Using GitBash on Windows, I had some trouble getting this to work as well.

I had Python 3.6 on the Windows path, but was trying to create a Python 2.7 virtual environment for testing an old project.

Eventually got it working via:

1. adding the C:\Python27 path to my Windows environment variables 
2. virtualenv -p c:/python27/python.exe venvname

(and before that I had to buggerize around adding the virtualenv module)